http://www.feralintelligence.com no plan, no excuses Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:38:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en the underworld has always had its allure. the sequence of photos of abandoned tunnels on dyscario.com are hauntingly beautiful. pictured here is an abandoned saltmine in romania. the grandeur and peace of these sunless corridors is somehow comforting. http://www.feralintelligence.com/tunnel-vision/ during the 40s and 50s, access to western music was severely restricted in eastern europe. enterprising music lovers began using wax disk cutters to record the bootlegged sounds of elvis, the beatles, thelonius monk, and john coltrane onto sheets of discarded xray film. called roentgenizdat, the dual-purpose medium allowed ... http://www.feralintelligence.com/record-on-the-bones/ recent archeological evidence points to a large-scale architectural wonder constructed 6000 years before stonehenge. the turkish site, gobekli tepe, is situated at the northen tip of the the fertile crescent and boasts dramatic rings of giant stone slabs not unlike those at the much more recent stonehenge. evidence suggests that ... http://www.feralintelligence.com/architecture-predating-agriculture/ among bird enthusiasts, ravens have long been touted as the smartest of birds. there are a variety of proofs offered, but few are as compelling as this video of japanese ravens who've learned to crack many a hard nut through observation and trial-and-error. this raven video, found on the always ... http://www.feralintelligence.com/ravens-figure-it-out/ it's geeky, but i love having a periodic table of the elements around for reference. there's something about the order and logic that's reassuring in this messy world. theodore gray spent years collecting images of each of the elements and has put together a truly gorgeous poster, showcasing each in ... http://www.feralintelligence.com/beauteous-periodic-table/ i miss pinball. there is something about the jewel-like colors and the clanging sounds and the fact that you actually have to apply body english to rack up a decent score. so many quarters sacrificed. so little to show for it. other than fond reminisces, of course. for others with ... http://www.feralintelligence.com/balls-eye-photos/ haha. an old friend, tom jennings, sent a link last nite to a kinda feral something i put together in 1998 for a challenge on the nettime mailing list. the idea was to take a long list of 'technoblather' terms and knit them into one narrative. i made it my ... http://www.feralintelligence.com/ancient-blatherations/ there's something viscerally satisfying about the simplicity of the DaylightMap site. clean lines and quick response echo its google map roots. bookmark it and you'll never call paris before dawn again. (unless you're drunk dialling, of course.) time-travelers will appreciate that you can enter any date and any time and ... http://www.feralintelligence.com/are-they-awake/ if so, might wanna pop on over to the posthuman blues blog and see if something there doesn't cheer you up. the brainchild of mac tonnies, it's a grabbag of links and pithy blurbs, each a little more curious than the last. right now, there are pointers to NASA shuttle ... http://www.feralintelligence.com/ever-get-those-posthuman-blues/ terri nelson works with mercury studios, a portland, oregon comics studio. it used to be that when you searched on "terri nelson mercury" her name would come up first. meanwhile, a mr. terry nelson has joined the firm of mercury/fleishman-hillard. now it wouldn't have bothered terri nelson that another's name ... http://www.feralintelligence.com/terri-nelsons-doppelganger/